And, secondly, to convince you that every home really ought to have a scanning electron microscope.

All these pictures were taken with a scanning electron microscope, actually in the lab at Kew Laboratories.

As I say, every home should have a scanning electron microscope to be able to see these.

And under the scanning electron microscope, you can see the surface there really quite different from the other surfaces we looked at.

Trade in one electron microscope, at a cost of 400,000, was not sufficiently attractive for the company to attempt to change its trade policy.

If you've ever seen an electron microscope picture, you'll see this. This all looks the same, then there's this bit over here which is incredibly complicated.

And these electron microscope pictures here's one of an orchid mimicking an insect you can see that different parts of the structure have different colors and different textures to our eye, have very, very different textures to what an insect might perceive.

In October 2004, Hemanos Ameijeiras Hospital made a request to representatives of the Japanese company Hitachi High Technologies Corporation for the purchase of a new electron microscope to replace one dating back 20 years and still in use at the institution's anatomical pathology laboratory.

The electron hits it suddenly.

We take a microscope slide.

You see under a microscope.

Some chose the microscope as their instrument.

This microscope magnifies objects by 100 times.

Do you know who invented the microscope?

And when the insect gets there and lands on it, dousing itself in pollen, of course, that it's going to take to another plant, if you look at the every home should have one scanning electron microscope picture, you can see that there are actually some patterning there, which is three dimensional.

And I looked at it underneath the microscope.

I've been a scanning electron microscopist for many years, I have thousands of electron micrographs, and when I'm staring at the mycelium, I realize that they are microfiltration membranes.

And underneath the microscope there were splinters of glass.

Here is a scanning electron micrograph of a grain of pollen.

You're actually hearing and seeing the electron flow with the lines.

OK. Now. If something absorbs the energy, the electron can travel.

How should we think of an electron in relation to E8?

Sometimes they send you pictures of them using the microscope.

It's like a microscope to the rest of the world.

So again this is what they can see under the microscope.

Do you know the difference between a microscope and a telescope?

Do you know the difference between a microscope and a telescope?

In SEPAC, accelerated ion and electron beams were ejected from the space shuttle.

You can look with a microscope and see them on a surface.

This is the way a living cell looks down a light microscope.

And so we peer through a legal microscope, and look at everything.

You can't see a point. It's by definition dimensionless, like an electron, oddly enough.

We're going to move even further down, and go to one single electron spin.

You simply take the proton, and you hit it really sharply with an electron.

If we see something that looks interesting, we pull it into a microscope.

This is taken through a fiber optics microscope. It's down inside the nest.

And what if we could get exquisite control over the essence of energy, the electron?

And I looked at it beneath the microscope. And some of it was flat.

What I did, I plucked the tag out and put it underneath the microscope.

You can see on the microscope slide here, that's what's happening in real time.

I mean they're incredibly small, you have to have a microscope to see one.

ITHACA, NEW YORK An apocryphal story sometimes heard among physicists concerns a toast, proposed by his Cambridge University colleagues, to J. J. Thomson s discovery of the electron in 1897 To the electron may it never be of use to anyone!

You see the electron flow with the streamlines we as artists have generated for the scientists.

They post projects, so they say, I want to teach Huckleberry Finn to my class and we don't have the books, or I want a microscope to teach my students science and we don't have a microscope.

How can one pair electrons without ions holding them together, thereby enabling higher temperature superconductors? While ideas about this abound, new theoretical breakthroughs most likely will be needed to develop the machinery required to solve such electron electron theories, perhaps even involving black holes.